Marketing & Communications Coordinator Apprentice
WYCOMBE FOOD HUB CIC
HIGH WYCOMBE (HP13 5ES)
Closes in 17 days (Friday 6 November 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 20 October 2026
Contents
Summary
Join Wycombe Food Hub and help promote a growing community organisation tackling food waste and supporting local people. You will create digital content and physical campaigns, attract volunteers and supporters, build practical skills in marketing, communications, fundraising and community engagement while contributing to real local impact.
- Wage
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£12,480 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Discounted food /household item/clothing.
Opportunities to work on ad hoc extra paid projects.
- Training course
- Multi-channel marketer (level 3)
- Hours
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Core on site hours 10-2pm in office, with limited flexibility to achieve current tasks, some offsite evenings/weekends.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 16 November 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The apprentice will promote Wycombe Food Hub’s activities, attract volunteers and supporters, and communicate the difference the organisation makes locally. Regular tasks will include:
Marketing and communications
1. Plan and deliver marketing campaigns that increase awareness, participation and support.
2. Create engaging content for the website, social media, email newsletters and digital screens.
3. Produce posters, leaflets, point-of-sale displays, volunteer recruitment materials and other printed resources.
4. Maintain consistent branding and messaging across the Food Hub, Bobkins Bazaar and community programmes.
5. Gather stories, photographs and information from volunteers, partners and service users, ensuring appropriate consent is obtained.
6. Create campaigns and communications for future Community Resilience Hub services and aspirations, including the proposed Repair Hub, as they develop.
7. Update the website and social media channels using tools such as Canva, Mailchimp, WordPress and relevant CRM and scheduling systems.
8. Monitor engagement and campaign results, preparing straightforward performance updates for the line manager and Board.
9. Monitor the central email inbox, respond to routine enquiries and direct messages to the appropriate colleague.
Volunteer attraction, fundraising and community engagement
10. Develop campaigns and content to attract new volunteers, working with the Resources Manager who oversees volunteer onboarding and management.
11. Promote fundraising campaigns, food drives, community events and appeals.
12. Prepare communications for donors, supporters, local businesses and community partners.
13. Maintain accurate records of donation points, collection bins, campaign contacts and community partners.
14. Carry out event promotion and administration, including bookings, publicity, materials and liaison with volunteers and partners.
15. Research new promotional, fundraising and partnership opportunities.
The apprentice will develop practical skills in content creation, campaign planning, digital marketing, communications, fundraising and community engagement. All communications must be accurate, inclusive and consistent with the Hub’s values of dignity, inclusion and community empowerment, while following data protection and safeguarding requirements.
Where you'll work
26 THE CHILTERNS
HIGH WYCOMBE
HP13 5ES
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SEETEC BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY CENTRE LIMITED
Training course
Multi-channel marketer (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines
- Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
- Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
- Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
- Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
- Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
- Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
- Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
- Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
- Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.
- Use a content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
- Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
- Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
- Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
- Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
- Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
- Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
- Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.
- Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines
- Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
- Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
- Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
- Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
- Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
- Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
- Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
- Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
- Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.
- Use a content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
- Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
- Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
- Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
- Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
- Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
- Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
- Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.
Training schedule
On the job training delivered by the employer.
Apprentices without Level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to taking the end point assessment. For those with an education, health and care plan or a legacy statement, the apprenticeships English and mathematics minimum requirement is Entry Level 3.
Allocation of an apprenticeship delivery coach who will carry out regular training.
Assessment and support visits to ensure you acquire new learning, knowledge skills and behaviours in order to progress and develop.
Identify, track and support 6 hours off the job training activities.
Quarterly formal progress review meetings, identifying learning achievements and next steps.
More training information
Internal systems training will be provided by the employer.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Minimum Grade C or 4)
- Maths (grade Minimum Grade C or 4)
Desirable qualifications
BTEC in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Social media experience
- Content creation experience
Other requirements
Driving license.
Offsite event work coordination and set up often driving to events, working weekends or ad hoc times
About this employer
Wycombe Food Hub is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company based in High Wycombe to address food insecurity while preventing good food and other useful resources from going to waste. Working with supermarkets, wholesalers and local businesses, it collects edible surplus food and redistributes it through an open-access social supermarket, affordable food baskets, a free community fridge, and partnerships with local charities and community groups.
Alongside food redistribution, it operates Bobkins Bazaar, which sells pre-loved clothing and household items at affordable prices. It is also developing a broader Community Resilience Hub, with aspirations including a Repair Hub alongside financial wellbeing, early-help services, community activities and partner-led programmes.
The organisation has an established volunteer network across food collection, driving, warehousing, retail and community activities. Its work brings together waste reduction, household affordability and community support.
We are now strengthening our people, systems, communications and fundraising capacity to support the next stage of growth, and this role will make an important contribution to that development.
https://www.wycombefoodhub.org/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Free basket of food week,
Discounted extra artisan food/household item/clothing.
Free community support service.
Opportunities to work on ad hoc extra paid projects.
20 days holiday + Bank Holidays, a pension (generally after a qualifying period of a couple of months) where the employee contributes 5% and the employer 3%, plus access to the WFH Employee Assistance Programme.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
On successful completion, the apprentice will have practical experience across digital marketing, communications, volunteer recruitment, fundraising and community engagement. This could lead to roles such as Marketing or Communications Assistant, Digital Marketing Executive, Fundraising Assistant, Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator or Community Engagement Officer. They could also progress to a higher-level apprenticeship or further professional qualifications in marketing, communications or fundraising. Any future employment opportunity with Wycombe Food Hub would depend on organisational needs and available funding.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SEETEC BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY CENTRE LIMITED
Paul Cotton
paul.cotton@seetec.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000060062.
Apply now
Closes in 17 days (Friday 6 November 2026 at 11:59pm)